When Late Nights and Early Mornings Collide

One of the more difficult obstacles to breaking into the social media machine (besides finding followers, getting likes, connecting regularly with others, posting that you posted here there and everywhere, staying in front of the trend, and so on) is the lack of sleep!

Granted I have only been back at this for a couple days, but in that time I can estimate I have seen at least :


1,500 pictures
750 companies
375 infographics
187 websites
93 blogs
46 spam emails
23 people I might possibly maybe know
11 new virtual contacts

Source: nonprofitorgs.wordpress.com via Courtney on Pinterest

I would be discouraged except I know social media takes time, patience and a good attitude.  Also, I ran across a great article by NonProfit Tech 2.0 which relieved a lot of fears, called "11 Qualities of an Effective Social Media Manager." An article I have read three times in 24 hours, one I will commit to memory... unless its cache is maxed out by the graphic assault of being online for 12 hours in a row.

When I read "Is not over confident of her social media skills" I knew they were talking directly to me.   Time and again I will tell you that my ego is my burden.  I know I can do a lot, and I like to expect that I can get big results. Unfortunately, unless I invent the next social fad and get it uploaded, the social media world will remind me... repeatedly... that I still need to do even more to get anything else.

The final quality was more of a tip than an indicator, "Takes steps to avoid social burn out."  I am still trying to figure out what this one means.  Last night I was up until 2:00 am and back at it at 7:00 am without having had a cup of coffee yet.  Maybe once I have had a round of joe, I'll go back and review what the article  had to say about it.  Of course, this is after I go jump on Twitter to post that I blogged about an article I found on Pinterest.